Founding Engineer

🚀 Founding Engineer, Thera (NYC)

Thera is building the financial OS for modern SMBs. Payroll, payments, treasury, spend, and accounting in one ecosystem that actually works end-to-end.

We're looking for our first NYC-based Founding Engineer to help scale the systems powering global payroll and money movement, work alongside our existing engineering team in India, and seed our in-person engineering culture from day one.

This is a true founding role. You'll be in the code, owning large pieces of the product, and working directly with the CEO.

📍 NYC, 5 days/week

Why we started Thera

Our founders saw firsthand how broken SMB payroll and finance had become. The average SMB stitches together 5+ tools just to pay people, move money, and close their books. We started Thera to collapse that fragmented stack into a single source of truth.

Backed by YC, 10X Founders, Zillionize, and Amino Capital.

What you'll own

• Core systems powering global payroll and money movement
• Large pieces of the product, end-to-end
• Helping lead our existing engineering team of 5+ in India
• Building our in-person engineering presence in NYC from scratch
• Direct partnership with the CEO and product team

Your first 90 days

30 days

• Ship a meaningful improvement or net-new feature on the spend product
• Get deep with the product team and the India engineering team

60 days

• Map out future builds across the roadmap
• Start leading product meetings

90 days

• Ship autonomously across at least one product surface
• Help build out our NYC in-person engineering culture
• Influence how we hire the next wave of engineers

About you

• 3 to 7+ years building and shipping production systems
• You thrive in ambiguity, move extremely fast, and care deeply about craft
• Comfortable owning features end-to-end from zero to one
• Bias toward action, simple solutions, and high standards
• Comfortable working with a distributed team across time zones

Stack today: TypeScript + Java/Kotlin

Not a fit if

• You want a pure management role
• You avoid ambiguity or messy real-world systems
• You're not willing to be in-person in NYC

Why Thera

• Huge ownership and meaningful equity
• Direct impact on product and culture
• A chance to build one of the most important fintech platforms of the next decade

Read more about our cultural principles: https://www.getthera.com/principles

Compensation: $100K - $250K